Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond, part 1: a poor mill…

Identify the figure who rises from the mill-pond and proposes the arrangement to the miller in the course of this passage.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, figure · What happens: identify, rise, propose · To what, where: figure, mill pond, arrangement, miller

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1702 «Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond, part 1: a poor miller strikes a bargain with a water spirit» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 figure	det
3	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 rises	nsubj
5	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 figure	acl:relcl
6	from	from	ADP	_	10 pond	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pond	det
8	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pond	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 mill	punct
10	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rises	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 proposes	cc
12	proposes	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rises	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 arrangement	det
14	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 proposes	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 miller	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 miller	det
17	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 proposes	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 course	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 course	det
20	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 miller	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 passage	case
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 passage	det
23	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 course	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the figure			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent figure=Theme
2	rise	present	the figure			the mill pond	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from pond=Initial_Location
3	propose	present	the figure not said here	the arrangement	the miller in the course of this passage		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent arrangement=Theme to miller=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

a spirit of the local woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spirit	det
2	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 woods	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woods	det
5	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woods	amod
6	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spirit	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the nixy of the mill-pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nixy	det
2	nixy	nixy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 pond	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pond	det
5	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pond	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 mill	punct
7	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nixy	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

the wizard of the old pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wizard	det
2	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 pond	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pond	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pond	amod
6	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wizard	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

the miller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 miller	det
2	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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